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SUMMARY:Synod Council and Deans Meeting
DESCRIPTION:This meeting will be held online. \nSketch and Outline of Presentation to  \nNTNL Synod Council and Deans  \nLeading into God’s Future Together  \nFebruary 5\, 2021\, 1-4pm \nObjective and Purpose \nProvide tools and resources to help pastoral and synodical leaders initiate conversations in congregations regarding their futures in light of the changing realities that have been brought on by Covid-19 and other circumstances and situations. \nStructure  \nBasic structure will be three one-hour sessions\, each lasting about 50 minutes with a ten-minute break between each session. \nSession 1 – Basic Introductions and Defining our Problem  \n\nBishop welcome and sharing learnings thus far.\nDefining our problem\, where are we “stuck?”\n\nWhat challenges and struggles are congregations/pastors and lay leaders/synodical leaders encountering in the present moment? Where do you see us stuck?\n\n\n\nSession 2 – Helpful theoretical resources that speak to our present moment  \n\nSystems theory\n\nWho is responsible\, reframing\, what is goal?\nWhat leads to “stuckness?”\nLeading through resistance.\nDistinction between empathy and sympathy.\n\n\nNarrative theory and future story\n\nWe all\, individuals and congregations\, have a narrative.\nIntroduce idea of a future story.\nFunctional vs. dysfunctional stories\n\n\nGrounding in reality\, so we can make clear and realistic decisions about how to live into the future\, even if that future is unknown.\n\nSession 3 – Practical Application: Leading into the new\, being prophetic and pastoral  \n\nInteractive exercises and sharing. Relating to real life situations.\nBuilding resilience and ability to lead through resistance and into change.\n\nResources to be Applied  \nAndy Lester’s book\, Hope in Pastoral Care and Counseling (concept of Future Story)  \nEd Friedmann: Failure of Nerve\, and Friedman’s Fables; Wayne Menking: When All Else Fails; Rethinking our Pastoral Vocation in Times of Stuck. (Systems theory\, change and resistance) 
URL:https://www.ntnl.org/event/synod-council-and-deans-meeting-feb-2021/
LOCATION:TX
CATEGORIES:NT-NL Synod
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SUMMARY:Synod Council and MEF Meeting
DESCRIPTION:This meeting will be held online.
URL:https://www.ntnl.org/event/synod-council-and-mef-meeting-feb-2021/
LOCATION:TX
CATEGORIES:NT-NL Synod
ORGANIZER;CN="NT-NL Synod%2C ELCA":MAILTO:office@ntnl.org
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